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, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.

Spars or timbers set up as a support against the side of a building.

A piece of money stamped with the figure of a cross, also, that side of such a piece on which the cross is stamped; hence, money in general. I should bear no cross if I did bear you; for I think you have no money in your purse. Shak.

A throw in which the wrestler turns his left side to his opponent, places his left leg across both legs of his opponent, and pulls him forward over his hip; hence, an unexpected defeat or repulse.

A bar connecting the ends of the side rods or levers of a backaction or side-lever engine.

A form of tackle for loading a log sideways on a sled, skidway, etc.

One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes.

nus Ranunculus, of many species; some are common weeds, others are flowering plants of considerable beauty.

ead (see Illust. of Bird.); that part of the head from which the hair descends toward the sides and back; also, the head or brain. From toe to crown he'll fill our skin with pinches. Shak. Twenty things which I set down: This done, I twenty more-had in my crown. Bunyan.

The criminal branch of the Court of King's or Queen's Bench, commonly called the crown side of the court, which takes cognizance of all criminal cases. Burrill.

Not reduced to order or form;unfinished; not arranged or prepared; ill-considered; immature. "Crudeprojects." Macualay. Crude, undigested masses of suggestion, furnishing rather raw materials for composition. De Quincey. The originals of Nature in their crude Conception. Milton.

A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.

oval fruit separates from the footstalk when ripe and expels its seeds and juice with considerable force through the opening thus made. See Elaterium. -- Star cucumber,a climbing weed (Sicyos angulatus) with prickly fruit.

A roof having a double slope, or composed, on each side, of two parts which have unequal inclination; a gambrel roof.

The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household. Burrill.

t town. Addison. There hath been practiced also a curiosity, to set a tree upon the north side of a wall, and, at a little hieght, to draw it through the wall, etc. Bacon.

ointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor.

in the Romanesque style, modeled like a bowl, the upper part of which is cut away on four sides, leaving vertical faces. -- Cushion star (Zoöl.) a pentagonal starfish belonging to Goniaster, Astrogonium, and other allied genera; -- so called from its form.

ick solid-rubber tire, as for a bicycle, with a hollow groove running lengthwise on the inside.

Long-established practice, considered as unwritten law, and resting for authority on long consent; usage. See Usage, and Prescription.